Job Description

Scaffolding Supervisor / Inspector


Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain's biggest construction project? Balfour Beatty VINCI is working with a range of organisations to design and build 90km West Midlands stretch of HS2 - Britain's new high speed railway.. Our work is essential to enable HS2 trains to travel between London and Birmingham as well as continue their journey up to Manchester. It's an incredibly exciting time to join us - we're at peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges, tunnels and viaducts. Plus you'd join 9,000 people across 72 nationalities working on this exciting section of HS2 across the region.


We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Scaffolding Supervisor/Inspector within the health & Safety Team.


Based in Birmingham city centre. Our prominent Birmingham city centre site, Sublot 4, cover a 4.5km stretch, bringing HS2 trains into the new Curzon Street station. The site is responsible for three sections of HS2; Curzon Street Station, the Saltley area and Washwood Heath. The work involves the construction of viaducts, underbridges, overbridges, river diversions and retaining structures.


The Role:


To work in conjunction with the Scaffold Assurance Manager, Site Teams and H&S Teams, to provide verification that required controls are planned, in place and being effectively implemented for scaffolding, (T&F and system scaffolds), including falsework systems such as: RMD modular systems, Doka systems, Peri-up modular, etc.


To review incidents involving persons working at height and the associated lessons learnt, in conjunction with the H&S team and support the implementation of new requirements.


To champion consistency of work at height risk controls as required by procedures and associated Operating Standards and promote improvements and new initiatives appropriate to the area of delivery.


You will need:

Qualifications:

Advanced Scaffolder and Advanced Scaffold Inspector, CISRS accredited. Scaffold System Product Training Scheme, SSPTS 'ring' category SMSTS/Scaffold Supervisor a minimum requirement Relevant CSCS/CISRS Card Full driving licence

Knowledge or/experience in:

Health and safety legislation, regulations and guidance as it applies to Scaffolding. Construction industry experience of advanced scaffolding and inspecting advanced/complex structures. Experience of working on major civil engineering or construction projects.

Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.

Benefits of working with us

Car/ car allowance Flexible working available for some roles Free parking Travel allowance for eligible candidates Family friendly leave policies Excellent pension contributions Healthcare Health risk assessments Access to employee assistance programmes Access to annual flu vaccinations

About Balfour Beatty VINCI

Balfour Beatty VINCI is a long-established joint venture between two powerhouses for the delivery of critical infrastructure across rail, transport and other iconic projects in the UK and beyond. We started working together over 30 years ago to deliver the Channel Tunnel, as members of the TransManche Link consortium. In the Midlands, it is Balfour Beatty VINCI's role to design and build the route, ready for tracks and signalling to be installed.


Our work with HS2 Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and then on to Handsacre in Staffordshire. Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:


9.3km of viaducts 62 overbridges 35 cuttings 56 culverts 62 embankments 2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels 28 underbridges and 11 underpasses
Diversity and Inclusion: Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) is delivering equal opportunities for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us.


We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities and neuro diversities. We are working to represent the communities Balfour Beatty VINCI works in through our workforce. We have embedded Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is a Disability Confident Leader and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.



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Job Overview

Internal reference

S0455

Job status

Full time

Closing date

30/08/2025

Location

Birmingham